producing employment growth and in reducing unemployment than most continental-European OECD-countries. It is argued that the … developed venture capital markets should help to alleviate such financial constraints. This view that labor-market institutions …

this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process … that has brought unemployment back to normal levels. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase in … unemployment, but that more flexible institutions could have lead to a more rapid decline in unemployment. …

reducing unemployment compared to most continental European OECD countries. As a rule they have also been and are still ahead …

We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment … reduce equilibrium unemployment of low-skilled workers both in the presence and absence of labor taxation. In the presence of … outsourcing, wage tax, tax exemption and payroll tax have an ambiguous effect on equilibrium unemployment. Increasing the degree …

analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …

Unemployment influences people’s life satisfaction beyond negative income shocks. A large body of literature … investigates these non-pecuniary costs of unemployment and stresses the importance of social identity and therefore social norms … experiment to compare unemployment-related life satisfaction losses between different cohorts of East and West German women. We …

economic theory of individual utility. -- life satisfaction ; retirement ; unemployment ; identity ; social norm …